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The rise of the seaside art galleryhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/mar/14/rise-seaside-art-gallery
Can art galleries save the British seaside? As yet another opens, this time in Hastings, Steve Rose finds out why it has so angered local fishermen – and asks if these regeneration projects really do any good<p>On Guy Fawkes night in 2008, the effigy on the annual beachfront bonfire in Hastings was not a person but a building. It was a mockup of the new <a href="http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/" title="">Jerwood Gallery</a>, which opens this Saturday. The effigy said plenty about what those opposed to the gallery expected: it was a rudimentary portico, like a mini-Parthenon, bearing the words &quot;ART GALLERY&quot;. Between its columns were images of flying pound signs and a white elephant. The crowds cheered as it burned.</p><p>This was not an entirely accurate reflection of the East Sussex town's overall feeling, though, as counter-protesters came out in support of the gallery the next morning. But it's a scene that's been replayed, in some form or other, across coastal towns in recent years. The decline of the traditional British seaside summer holiday has left once-glorious resorts in&nbsp;states of grimness and depression. And culture is now the cure – or at least the prescription. Over the past decade, a wave has been crashing on coastal towns not from the sea but from inland, in the form of new art galleries and other cultural initiatives, particularly in the south-east. But there's invariably a local contingent who see &quot;regeneration&quot; as gentrification by stealth: poncy urban types imposing their own sensibility on people who'd rather spend their hard-earned on something other than art.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/mar/14/rise-seaside-art-gallery">Continue reading...</a>ArchitectureArt and designCultureHastingsUnited KingdomTravelCultural tripsEnglandWed, 14 Mar 2012 17:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/mar/14/rise-seaside-art-galleryIoana Marinescu/PROily lustre … Hasting's new Jerwood Gallery. Photograph: Ioana MarinescuIoana Marinescu/PROily lustre … Hasting's new Jerwood Gallery. Photograph: Ioana MarinescuSteve Rose2012-03-14T17:30:00Z